首を絞める

くびをしめる

to wring the neck, to strangle

自分の首を絞める

じぶんのくびをしめる

to ask for trouble, to dig your own grave, to cut your own throat

真綿で首を絞める

まわたでくびをしめる

to drag things out, to creep up slowly on the point, to strangle (execute) slowly with a silk cord (instead of quickly with a rope)

裸絞め

はだかじめ

bare hand strangle

絞め技

しめわざ

shime-waza (judo stranglehold)

絞る

しぼる

to squeeze (fruit to extract juice), to press, to extract, to milk, to express milk

絞め殺す

しめころす

to strangle to death

絞り染め

しぼりぞめ

tie-dye

絞まる

しまる

to be strangled, to be constricted

絞

death by hanging (punishment in the ritsuryō system)

引き絞る

ひきしぼる

to draw bow to limit, to draw aside curt

振り絞る

ふりしぼる

to muster (one's strength)

液を絞る

えきをしぼる

to squeeze the juice (from)

絞り取る

しぼりとる

to squeeze or wring out from

油を絞る

あぶらをしぼる

to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke

的を絞る

まとをしぼる

to narrow in (on), to home in, to focus, to target

袂を絞る

たもとをしぼる

to shed many tears, to weep, to wring dry one's sleeve (which has been soaked by tears)

口締め（口絞り）

くちしめ（くちしぼり）

closing in

絞殺

こうさつ

strangulation, strangling